"Fidel would lay a snake if it wriggled," Sturgis told the magazine. "She was one of the snakes. I tried to get her to poison Fidel, but she backed off because she was in love with the son of a bi---."

Sturgis would later enter history as one of the Watergate burglars.

Lorenz's did not pursue life out of the spotlight following the assassination attempt. Her memoirs also include an affair with Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez and testimony before Congressional committees examining the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

By 1993 she was living in Queens and struggling to make ends meet.

"I need a job, and not in intelligence," she told The News. "Having rent due worse than working for the CIA....I'm a labeled assassin, and they can't get a good job in New York."